Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure same sex partners can register as the mothers of their child on birth certificates.

Civil registration in the UK is a devolved matter and there are separate systems in place for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In England and Wales, a birth entry records the name of the child’s mother and, where certain conditions can be met as set out in law, the name of a second female parent.

There are currently no plans in England and Wales to change how a mother, father or parent is recorded in birth entries or on birth certificates.